US lawmaker shot by anti-Trump gunman showing improvement

US House Majority Whip Representative Steve Scalise, seen in 2016, and three other people were shot early Wednesday at a park in suburban Washington as they practiced for a congressional charity baseball game

Top US Republican lawmaker Steve Scalise continued to show improvement as he recovers from being shot by a gunman angry about President Donald Trump, the hospital treating him said Saturday.

Scalise and three other people were shot early Wednesday at a park in suburban Washington as they practiced for a congressional charity baseball game.

The 51-year-old from the southern state of Louisiana was hit in the left hip by a bullet from a high-velocity rifle.